Awestruck!!!

That's really the only word that I can come up with to describe DNOW weekend. I was listening to my favorite CD on my way home today(Passion-Everything Glorious) and if there was one song that describes this weekend, Its a song by, who else, but Chris Tomlin-I Stand Amazed. We had a good friend(more like a brother) of mine come and lead us in worship. Its called a Concert of Praise. You walk into the sanctuary and take off your shoes. The sanctuary is dimly lit and you spread out in the sanctuary so that you are not close to anyone. There is scripture on the screen and you are called to pray about various things such as thanksgiving, confession of sin, adoration, commitment, etc all to worship music. It is a setting that seems like it is just you and God one on one.
It all started Saturday when the guys went to a members house(Thanks Chuck and Jennifer!) and played paintball. About 3:30 I had to go to the church and meet him to go over the sound and the presentation. As soon as I walked into the sanctuary it like God was there...waiting. The Spirit was so thick I had tears come to my eyes. I could hardly talk about setting things up because there was such a strong presence there, I knew God was going to do something great that night. We finished and had dinner. When the leaders finished they went on to the sanctuary and began to pray. I met with the youth shortly before we were to go in and explained to them that we were going to go in and take our shoes off and spread out. I also told them that we were about to go into the very presence of God...it was dead quiet.
I have often wondered what it would be like to feel God in such a way. I remembered the story of Moses at the burning bush in Exodus chapter 3; 4 When the LORD saw that he had gone over to look, God called to him from within the bush, "Moses! Moses!" And Moses said, "Here I am." 5 "Do not come any closer," God said. "Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground." 6 Then he said, "I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob." At this, Moses hid his face, because he was afraid to look at God.
I also remembered Isaiah chapter 6; 5 "Woe to me!" I cried. "I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the LORD Almighty." There has never been a time in my life where I just wanted to stay there, basking in God's light in a dark room. I felt so much like Isaiah so unclean but yet so clean at the same time. It is a time that I hope I never forget.
So what now, we cant be like that always but this weekend taught us that we should show others the love of Jesus, we should tell them and share Jesus with them so they can see and feel the same things we do. Saturated was the theme for the weekend and it was just that, we were saturated in God.
Read Isaiah Chapter 6 for yourself. Desire with all you have to reach out for Him, to be in His presence, everyday and you will find Him!!
Acts 17:26-28 (New International Version)
26From one man he made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he determined the times set for them and the exact places where they should live. 27God did this so that men would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us. 28'For in him we live and move and have our being.' As some of your own poets have said, 'We are his offspring.'